Warrior10
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Looking ahead to late summer here, but what is the best way to clip and fit calves for pictures/videos that are not halter broke?
Clipping and Fitting Non-broke Calves
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the guys i buy my steers from have one of these chute. sides open up, but there is still a bar like a grooming chute. here is the link to the website too. http://gobobpipe.com/cowco-cattle-portable-equipment.htm
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Alpha
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use ACE
Warrior10
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Never thought of this. Thanks for all ideas so far.Alpha said:
Muddy, if you are planning on being in this business very long a chute like CANsteer pictured is the only way to go. Whether you buy that brand or build your own. We use ours ours for clipping everything from calves to bulls, vaccinating, preg testing, AIing, etc.,everything but branding. We made ours portable so we can take it where ever we need it. But until you get one you might cut some plywood panels you can stick inside your trimming chute that you can take out once you have the calf captured.
Warrior10
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Thanks for the suggestion, finances are not going to allow me to.buy one like the one pictured above, but I can sure build one like you described.
I also saw another chute like this one on the Internet somewhere. I remember the company had lowline angus too. But with the ones this company has you have to buy the headgate separately. Not sure on the price. I will try to find the site tomorrow. I don't have either of these, but I do what MCC said with the plywood.
Here is the chute we had made, using a Pearson self-head catch. It works great for clipping broke or clipped calves of all sizes, and I also use it for all my A.I.ing at home. Key to any chute like this. HEAVY DUTY!
http://www.zntcattle.com/2010/05/chute.html
http://www.zntcattle.com/2010/05/chute.html
firesweepranch
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MCC said:
Why not branding? I have a chute almost identical to the one pictured, but the front has a step over piece. It is by Orbits, and we have really liked it so far. We plan on freeze branding this spring for the first time, so why wouldn't this work? Maybe because you can not squeeze?
Mainevent
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Warrior10
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Thanks for all the ideas, I think I will be able to whip something up.
All you really need is a head catch gate............anything that will catch there heads and most of them will be aight because they will be pulling back so hard they wont be able to kick you.........and the ones that are stupid give them some ace and shoot it up their nose
Mueller Show Cattle
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If you are going to clip or AI non broke cattle or brand cattle, all you need is a head catch and an animal immobilizer. You can stick a hot iron to the cattle and the animal will not move a bit. The animal immobilizer is running about $750, buy a used head catch for a couple hundred. You can do a professional job with around $1000 as that animal will not move with the animal immobilizer on.
